No Perl5 on the JVM

An interesting one for me: I’ve often wondered why there was only a single implementation of perl5. Reddit linked to a post from August 2009 that more or less answered that question – porting the parser is too much effort for most.

Because of the misleading reddit headline, chromatic followed up and linked to an earlier post he made discussing methods for parsing non-pathological perl examples. He pointed out that string eval and source filters further complicate things.